Word: brags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost as fantastic as the murders themselves was the disclosure that at least 30 teenagers, all friends of Schmid's, had apparently heard him brag about the crimes-and said nothing. Confided one 16-year-old coed at Tucson's Palo Verde high school: "A lot of people knew, but it was already too late. Telling would just have made it tough on everyone...
...Bobby Clark and junior goali Bill Fitzsimmons, but last year's performances won little more than letters for this starless group. Right wingers Pete Waldlinger and Dennis McCullough, both juniors, led the team in goals, but their totals of nine apiece is more a mark to build upon than brag about...
...maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...
...year. To help heal the divisions between French-and English-speaking Canadians, Pearson pushed through a new Canadian flag and set up a special Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. In the prairie provinces-where the political leanings are Conservative, but the wheat buyer is always right-he can brag about last month's $450 million sale of 222 million bu. of wheat to Russia. He has installed a new and vastly expanded social security system, a new minimum-wage law and a far-reaching anti-poverty program. All this seems to be reflected in the most recent Gallup...
...aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia; in Zurich, Switzerland...